Mikio Yamazaki

A documentary that centers on filmmaker Mikio Yamazaki, exploring his artistic vision and his feelings towards 8mm film, the primary medium of his work.

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a different language. The film was entirely self-developed at home

Unidentified people appear around the protagonist, Mr. M. No matter how many times he wakes up, he cannot escape from his dream. In a speeding, deserted subway, Mr. M falls asleep again. This is Yamazaki's second work in his filmography. Reflecting on the fact that his first 8mm drama, "The Melancholy of Poplar Trees," was less than a school play, he decided to make this film to see how much he could do within his own field of expertise. He unashamedly quotes various films, including Masanobu Nakamura's "Autumn in Beijing". An interesting precursor to his works " Anti-Interpretation" "Memories of the Seaside," and "Ghosttown at Dawn". This filmwork won the Student Encouragement Award at the 1980 Fuji 8mm Contest.

Rukani (Yamazaki), a middle-aged man with a cosplay fetish, tries to shoot an adult video featuring a woman named Karinpa (Komoda) as his model. However, whenever things start to get erotic, a mysterious red bat suddenly appears out of nowhere and gets in the way.

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews.

A sci-fi work that approaches the abduction plan by extraterrestrial life. The Hi8 videotape, posted by a young man who died with his parents, contained a huge UFO image. The staff who explore the mystery succeeded in contacting the contributor after a desperate investigation. The shocking truth revealed...

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This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

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In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn baby. As he buries her under a tree in the garden, it made me think of his father, who died the year before. He is no longer with us, but only the gaze he left behind. And so I set off on a journey. In a town in the Hokuriku region, he met a woman who once appeared in one of his films. When I dozed off on the train to Tokyo, she appeared to me in a dream and tells me that I will soon find the exit. Back in Tokyo, I told Kamioka that I'm going to start filming again. I came back into the room, turned on the microphone and pressed the flame against the lens.

A work in which a photo of the filmmaker flies through the sky and returns to a garden where there are photos of his family and his pets.

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.

As part of the street observation work, I was working on collecting and arranging the number of the beast 666 in the city. Then, I realized that it was boring and decided to return to the drama for the first time in a while. Chepki, a woman who investigates the lot number where 6s are lined up, and Lucani, a middle-aged cosplay fetish man who is a driver while questioning the certainty of her head. The strange behavior and behavior of the woman finally leaves the woman behind in the river. At the base of the motif is Ferrini's "Michi".

Unidentified people appear around the protagonist, Mr. M. No matter how many times he wakes up, he cannot escape from his dream. In a speeding, deserted subway, Mr. M falls asleep again. This is Yamazaki's second work in his filmography. Reflecting on the fact that his first 8mm drama, "The Melancholy of Poplar Trees," was less than a school play, he decided to make this film to see how much he could do within his own field of expertise. He unashamedly quotes various films, including Masanobu Nakamura's "Autumn in Beijing". An interesting precursor to his works " Anti-Interpretation" "Memories of the Seaside," and "Ghosttown at Dawn". This filmwork won the Student Encouragement Award at the 1980 Fuji 8mm Contest.

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8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.

Rukani (Yamazaki), a middle-aged man with a cosplay fetish, tries to shoot an adult video featuring a woman named Karinpa (Komoda) as his model. However, whenever things start to get erotic, a mysterious red bat suddenly appears out of nowhere and gets in the way.

This is a feature-length work that combines the short stories "Night Palm Forest," "Red Bat Girl," "Night is Coming Soon," and "Kiri Rider" with "Mercury Heart" (starring Yu Arai) which was created as a summary. The music that had been used in the short stories up to that point ("Kiri Rider" was left as it was) was replaced with Emerson Kitamura's music.

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

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This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

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A man stands in the city, holding a single red rose in his hand. He gets on the subway and places the rose on a street. The narrator explains that this fragment, which could not be completed as a story, continues to live on within him as narrative noise.

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So, what exactly were we doing with this work? To put it simply, we tried to see if we could do something similar to musical improvisation in film.In musical improvisation, some performers play instruments, others voice, and sometimes even dancers join in, creating a unique expression through the collaboration of these expressive acts, which could be described as a kind of friendly competition on the spot.In film, there was a "convention" to construct a work based on a "blueprint" called a concept, whether it was a scenario for a commercial film or an experimental film.This film is an attempt to break away from that style, and together with the staff and actors with whom I have worked on several other films, I explored a free jazz-like approach to making a film through a session.I didn't want to keep shooting indefinitely, so I decided to shoot from March 1st to March 10th, 1984.

A middle-aged man, Lukani, is attracted to a woman holding a card for an offline social networking site meet-up in front of the station. As usual, he ends up going to a love hotel with the woman, but later, he tries to take a walk with her along the same route during the day...

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Aiming to a tranquil yet raw energy. All of the footage was fixed using a tripod and the result was a series of inorganic objects that appear one after the other.

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

It consists of two repeated images: a scene of cutting the back of a hand with a utility knife and blood oozing out, and another one of a man being slaughtered at the beach.

This is an 8mm film shot and edited from 1996 to 1999. There is no story development like a normal story movie, and the image of only the author = the hero like a diary movie continues. There are no lines. The heroine-like existence is a dingy female stray cat. Still, I tried to brew and elaborate how to make a movie time of about one hour, like walking a tightrope, but over a long period of time. As a reference motif, there is Isao Yamada's early work "Yomado". The title "Gootariputra" is not a word with a specific meaning, but is just a coined word of Lazy way of life.

One day, middle-aged man Estan meets Nui, a woman who has lived for 20,000 years. The mysterious journey of Nui and Estan begins, using arrowheads to collect the emotions of humans in the past.

The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date. However the "film you don't know who belongs to" that is inserted in the middle is real. ​A living story that could only be realized through film. Due to the death of Kamioka, who shot most of the film, the decision was made to leave the footage alone and completely replace the monologue.

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